The boreal forest—the world's largest terrestrial biome—is warming faster than any other forest type. To understand the changing dynamics of boreal forests, Min Feng and colleagues analyzed the biome ...

Imagine your pillow or mattress came with health warnings. It sounds extreme but scientists say our bedding absorbs our sweat ...

Every young person in London deserves a pathway to a brighter future - Most of the business community thinks that AI will displace a large number of existing jobs.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration has sent important signals to Brazil’s landless rural workers regarding land reform, but those signals have yet to translate into concrete measures ...

In a new study published in Cell, scientists in the Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg reveal that microbes living in similar habitats are more alike than those simply inhabiting the same geographical ...

In the largest study of its kind, EMBL scientists reveal that certain microbes can thrive across different ecosystems, contributing to the global ...

Discover how gut bacteria sense their world. New research on Clostridia reveals specific sensors for nutrients, driving a ...

It’s a thank you letter as much as it is a love note… Before you load up the contrarian canon and commit to ‘draft one’ of the negative comment barrage, allow me to issue a disclaimer. No country – ...

Many ecologists hypothesize that, as global warming accelerates, change in nature must speed up. They assume that as ...

Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on ice cover since 1897. It's already being used to study a declining fish species.

Climate change is shaking up the seas, changing fish distribution throughout the oceans. And fishers in the tropics are ...

Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree ...